Improvement in ice-picks



W. O. RUSSELL.

7 [ce-Pick. N0.161,282. Patented March23;1875.

WILLIAM C. RUSSELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN IE-PICKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 161,282, dated March 23, 1875; application filed September 9, 1874.

T0 all whom it may concmn:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. RUSSELL, of Philadelphia, in the eounty of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in lce-Picks, of whieh the following is a speoification:

My invention relates to iee-pioks; and it consists in constructing the 13001 in sueh a manner as to combine in one tool an ioe-ehisel, With a s1iding hand le and weight for operating it, a hammer, and a piek or point, ail as hereinafter more fully set forth.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my eombined tool, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

In constructing my improved tool I first provide a ehise1 or hatchet shaped blade, C, whieh has a rigid stem, B, as shown in Fig. 2. I then provide a tubular handle, A whieh has rigidly secured to one end a head, D, having a hammenface, E, at one end, and sharp point or piok a at its opposite end, as represented in Fig. 1. This head D has a short stem, e, whieh is inserted within the tubular handle.A, as shown in Fig. 2. The stem B of the blade 0 is first passed through a hole in a nut, 1), which is fitted t0 screw into the lower end of the tubular handle A, and upon the upper end of this stem B I then seeure a collar,f, of sueh a size as to fit loosely Within the handle A. After this collar f is seeured upon the stem B, it, With the stem, is shoved into the tubular handle A, when the nut b is serewed into the lower end of the tube, thus uniting the parts, as represented in Fig. 2, when the tool is complete.

Te eut ice into regular-shaped pieces the blade 0 is held upon it and struck With the weighted handle, the blade C being moved along without raising it from the ice. The point a serves to break the ioe into irregular lumps, while the fiat face E serves to pulverize it when required, the implement thus serving all the various purposes for whieh, ordinarily, several tools are required.

I am aware that a sliding weighted handle has been used on an ice-piek, and also that a fiat eutting-blade has been used in various ways, and therefore I do not daim these featares separately; but

What I do elaim is The herein-deseribed implement for eutting and breaking ice, consisting of the fiat blade O, provided With the stem B, and the tubular handle A, provided with the head D, having the face E and point a, all eonstrueted substantially as set fort-h.

WILLIAM C. RUSSELL. Witnesses:

JOSEPH B. STRAFFORD, JOHN RODGERS. 

